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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

Learning Management Systems With learning management systems now installed at nearly all higher education institutions here and abroad, instructors can create course materials, assess student progress and generate custom exams. The LMS market today is valued at $9.2 The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) million students.

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?The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Course Designers

Edsurge

Quickly I found that even as I logged runs on Strava daily, I struggled to find the time to log into platforms like Coursera, Udemy or Udacity to finish courses produced by my fellow instructional designers. There were no formalized links between the activities that they would do online and how they would be assessed in their roles offline.

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Punk learning

Learning with 'e's

For some time, educators have been subverting established methods and turning their backs on institutional tools and technologies such as the managed learning environment (also known as LMS or VLE). Fast forward to today, and we see signs that the early dynamic MOOCs and other punk learning approaches are being adulterated.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

From the US Department of Education’s blog : “Building the Next Generation of Assessments in Education.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via the Coursera blog : “Coming soon to all courses: Flexible session-based schedules.” ” Poor poor misunderstood LMSes.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Testing, Testing… “Big changes ahead for how California assesses school performance,” KPCC reports. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ MOOCs no longer massive, still attract millions,” Class Central’s Dhawal Shah claims in a VentureBeat op-ed.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

“Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. ” MOOC startups like Udacity and Coursera have also rebranded to target this particular post-secondary technical training market. We’ve seen this before in the MOOC world. See: the LMS, the MOOC.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

ESSA gives more autonomy and flexibility to states than they had under NCLB through competency-based assessments, which could drive the development of personalized learning technologies. Instructure, for example, undertook its fifth annual security audit this year to identify possible vulnerabilities in its LMS Canvas.

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